Patents by Inventor Robert Clark Tyer, SR.

Robert Clark Tyer, SR. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140283453
    Abstract: A means for improving prior art combined cycle combustor and/or gasifiers and/or plural thermodynamic cycle gasification systems by introducing and utilizing an auger for the continuous feeding, agitation, tumbling, advancement and discharge of heterogenous carbonaceous fuel. In addition to the aforementioned improvement, I have included provisions for Fontana's water gas shift reaction utilizing refectory embedded down-tubes that convey steam and oxygen into and through the chambers fluidized bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Clark Tyer, SR.
  • Publication number: 20110173887
    Abstract: A means for improving prior art combined cycle combustor and/or gasifiers and/or plural thermodynamic cycle gasification systems by introducing and utilizing an auger for the continuous feeding, agitation, tumbling, advancement and discharge of heterogeneous carbonaceous fuel. In addition to the aforementioned improvement, I have included provisions for Fontana's water gas shift reaction utilizing refractory embedded down-tubes that convey steam and oxygen into and through the chambers fluidized bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventor: Robert Clark Tyer, SR.
  • Publication number: 20100215551
    Abstract: The gasifier described includes, in its preferred embodiments, a vertically elongated (“oblong”) primary gasifier chamber with an auger and a fluidized bed, allowing for large amounts of fuel input when necessary. The gasifier further includes a gas treatment chamber receiving gases discharged from the gasifier chamber. The fluidized bed in the gasifier chamber as well as the gas treatment chamber contain metallic particles, with these metallic particles circulating in a closed loop between the gasifier chamber and the gas treatment chamber. This system offers numerous benefits. Some or all of said metallic particles can serve as a catalyst in the gasification of the gasifiable materials being processed, including serving as a catalyst for a Fisher Tropsch chemical process in the gasification of said gasifiable materials. In the gas treatment chamber particularly, some or all of said metallic particles serve to clean gases produced in the gasification of said gasifiable materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventor: Robert Clark Tyer, SR.